Re: parse partition strategy string in gram.y - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: parse partition strategy string in gram.y
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Msg-id 20221025231532.ndofmybeizfcaclj@alvherre.pgsql
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In response to Re: parse partition strategy string in gram.y  ("Finnerty, Jim" <jfinnert@amazon.com>)
Responses Re: parse partition strategy string in gram.y  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>)
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On 2022-Oct-25, Finnerty, Jim wrote:

> Or if you know the frequencies of the highly frequent values of the
> partitioning key at the time the partition bounds are defined, you
> could define hash ranges that contain approximately the same number of
> rows in each partition.  A parallel sequential scan of all partitions
> would then perform better because data skew is minimized. 

This sounds very much like list partitioning to me.

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